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CDF47
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Should the UFC cut their ppv price in half for their half-ass cards? - Page 2 Empty Re: Should the UFC cut their ppv price in half for their half-ass cards?

Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:46 pm
bolsheet wrote:
CDF47 wrote:
There should only be 3 or 4 full price PPVs each year with multiple title fights and top contender fights on each PPV. Super stacked cards for New Years and in July with one or two other PPVs would be better IMO.

Unlike pride, the ufc champions don't want to be very active if they do 2 fights on a year is much, since they already are making money not fighting like anderson and need to fight a top contender back to back (you don't carry a belt in the cage to fight Zuluzinho or Yuji Nagata) and losing the belt will hurt their sponsors deals and tv appearances. So you can't waste all yours bullets on one day when for the american audience you usually only promote the main event and the co-main event at most. (GSP-Koscheck 2 alone had 800k usa ppv buys)

If UFC champs were forced to fight 2-3 times per year and there were 5 divisions, that would be 10 - 15 title fights per year. If there were 3 PPVs each year they could stack all of them with 2 title fights each (6 title fights total) and still be able to put the other 4 to 9 title fights on FOX cards. If they ran 4 PPVs each year they could put 2 title fights on each card and the other 2 - 7 title fights on FOX.

Title Defenses Over the Last Year per Division (LW - HW) (01 August 2011 - 01 August 2012):
- LW: 3
- WW: 1 Interim (Champion Seriously Injured)
- MW: 2
- LHW: 3
- HW: 2

TOTAL: 11 title defenses.

So based on last year stats, 2 title fights per each of 4 PPVs could be held and a single title fight on 3 FOX cards could be held if scheduling held up.

They could then stack their FX cards with top contender title eliminator fights and get rid of the small time Fuel shows.

The un-aired prelims would bring up the new talent and also reduce over saturation.

They could reduce their roster for the top guys to air in 12 shows each year (1 show per month)

This would be an overall improvement in product quality. They could hold 4 PPVs (one each quarter), 3 FOX cards, and 5 FX cards each year stacked with top contender and championship fights.

The bigger divisions, from LW - HW, will bring more finishes than the flyweight - FW divisions, which will appeal to the casual fans especially. Aldo could go to 155.

I like the old MMA days with UFC and PRIDE (two goliath orgs.) with different rules and fighting platform better than the MMA of today which is over saturated (too many cards too many divisions, too many prelims,...) and filled with mainly cage events under unified rules. The main thing MMA was missing in the PRIDE/UFC days was a single cross-promotional title unification Super Bowl of MMA event held every one - two years in alternating venues.
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